New Artist Spotlight: Nyasha Shani
2008-04-04 08:04:00
When I started to do this New Artist
Spotlight
, I was hoping to get a variety of submissions, and thus far, I have. I wanted to hear from DJ's, producers and MC's. I love hearing new quality music, it's been one of the things I get the most enjoyment out of doing the blog. It's just fun to do to spotlight some good up & coming artist trying to get their name out there. This week is my first R&B
the Last Emperor rare tracks
2008-04-04 03:43:00
Every now and then I browse through WYDUs old articles and everytime I happen to find new things, this time I came across the Do You Remember? article I posted 6 month ago and saw that only 2 month ago someone posted another compilation of rare tracks
in the comments which he apparently got from the man himself. I also checked the website he provided and in deed they posted only a month ago new
Read more: Emperor
DC Scorpio - Stone Cold Hustler Part II & J-Zone - Gator$-N-Fur$ Mixshow April 2008
2008-04-03 21:50:00
Good evening party people, hopefully all is well in your respective locales. It's Thursday, which means tomorrow is Friday. All I got to say is it can't come too fuckin' soon. It's been a long week, some good, some of it shitty. Actually this weekend, it looks like some big things going down for WYDU in general. It's going to call for some kind of celebration, so watch out town....
As if you
Read more: Scorpio
, Stone
, Gator
, April
, Stone Cold
Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Ten (The Final Chapter....sort of)
2008-04-03 07:51:00
Yes, I know, nine comes after eight and before ten. Well it does when you don't have technical problems and accidentally erase Part Nine of the ten part series. I thought I was being slick and getting ahead by doing nine and ten tonight so I could work on getting some other things that NEED to get done with this blog and a guest post that is a year late. But, either blogger ate the post, or I
Read more: Greatest
, Final
, Chapter
Spins, Tracks, & Thoughts For The Week
2008-04-08 08:00:00
Time again to go over what I've been listening to in the old iPod (yes, I finally joined the revolution). There are some great songs that I play over and over lately, which is always good to have, but as far as full albums go, it's been kind of weak so far this year. Be on the look out my opinion on the first quarter along with another special blogging guest here later this week. I'm sure there
Read more: Spins
Philaflava.com's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks: Part Nine
2008-04-07 08:00:00
If I ever decide to run for president, (which will never happen because I'm sure I have more than a few skeletons in my closet) I would go in on the three day weekend platform. Two days just ain't enough. Hopefully everyone had a chilled weekend. Mine was fairly uneventful. For all two of you tuning in to hear my on air interview (see last Thursday nights post), the interview didn't go down due
Read more: Greatest
WYDU Classics April 08: I Must Dis You
2008-04-09 07:26:00
Hip hop was initially based on competition. It was about who could rock the party the livest, whether it be rival DJ's, rival breakers and later, rival MC's. You had to go for yours. If you didn't, you were going to get dissed. In this day in age, people don't understand it. Not the artists and not the fans. Artists are too thin skinned and forgot about settling beef on the mic and go for the
Read more: Classics
, April
New Artist Spotlight: Citizen
2008-04-11 07:56:00
This week's new artist hails from an area quite rich in hip hop history, the Bay Area of California. Citizen
is a jack of all trades, working his craft in everything from DJing, MCing, production and even crafts some tunes as an engineer behind the boards. Coming hard with a "do-it-yourself" mentality, he has his hands in three different projects, one which just dropped and two that are in
Read more: Artist
, Spotlight
Philaflava's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks :The Bonus Tracks aka Trav's Picks
2008-04-10 08:04:00
We've spent the last couple weeks going over what a committee thought were the best "obscure" tracks. What did we learn? Get nine people together to discuss hip hop music and make a "best of" list of any kind and it's nearly impossible. Oh, and that the term "obscure" is rather relative.
As we put the cherry on top and put an end to this little series, I figured I would post up my personal
Read more: Greatest
, Bonus
Hump Day Freeness
2008-04-09 20:40:00
You know you aren't exactly thrilled with your jobby job when you are counting down the days left in the week. Or in my case, counting every two hours that go by until the next break. Yes, I love my job.
So, while you await the GRAND finale of the Philaflava Obscure tracks, with the posting of my own ten or twenty favorite "obscure" choices, I figured I'd toss up some FREE (I know, everything is
Read more: Hump Day
It's on!!!!
2008-04-12 17:03:00
First and foremost, I wanna tell you about a new blog. The Blog of the one and only Punchline. If you are intersted in Hip Hop, women and shoes, basketball and life in genaral, that's your adress to go, haha.
Next step, the Inverse interview will be coming soon, and it will be interesting!
The biggest news for me... Tony Tigerstyle will arrive iin
WakeYourDaughterUp TLD
2008-04-11 14:40:00
So finally the Daughter has it's very own top level domain and is now available under a new address in the big blogosphere that it is part of, however the site is still available under it's old one, meaning wakeyourdaughterup.blogspot.com as are the old articles and in fact, the new ones..
You can now access the site via typing in either www.wydublog.com or simply wydublog.com, both ways
New Artist Spotlight: Citizen
2008-04-11 07:56:00
This week's new artist hails from an area quite rich in hip hop history, the Bay Area of California. Citizen
is a jack of all trades, working his craft in everything from DJing, MCing, production and even crafts some tunes as an engineer behind the boards. Coming hard with a "do-it-yourself" mentality, he has his hands in three different projects, one which just dropped and two that are in
Read more: Artist
, Spotlight
Philaflava's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks :The Bonus Tracks aka Trav's Picks
2008-04-10 08:04:00
We've spent the last couple weeks going over what a committee thought were the best "obscure" tracks. What did we learn? Get nine people together to discuss hip hop music and make a "best of" list of any kind and it's nearly impossible. Oh, and that the term "obscure" is rather relative.
As we put the cherry on top and put an end to this little series, I figured I would post up my personal
Read more: Greatest
, Bonus
Hump Day Freeness
2008-04-09 20:40:00
You know you aren't exactly thrilled with your jobby job when you are counting down the days left in the week. Or in my case, counting every two hours that go by until the next break. Yes, I love my job.
So, while you await the GRAND finale of the Philaflava Obscure tracks, with the posting of my own ten or twenty favorite "obscure" choices, I figured I'd toss up some FREE (I know, everything is
Read more: Hump Day
WYDU Classics April 08: I Must Dis You
2008-04-09 07:26:00
Hip hop was initially based on competition. It was about who could rock the party the livest, whether it be rival DJ's, rival breakers and later, rival MC's. You had to go for yours. If you didn't, you were going to get dissed. In this day in age, people don't understand it. Not the artists and not the fans. Artists are too thin skinned and forgot about settling beef on the mic and go for the
Read more: Classics
, April
WYDU Blog Gets Interviewed
2008-04-13 15:24:00
For those of you who might have missed it, I was interviewed last night on Berkeley Liberation Radio, during the G.O.D. Hour (dope radio show that comes on 6pm - 8pm every Saturday night and is worth checking itself). You can hear me in all my bumbling and mumbling goodness. The second part of the show has me being damn near inaudible, I don't know if it's from the radio station or my phone (I
The Soul Occs - finally united! Diary: Days 1 and 2
2008-04-15 05:42:00
Sunday, April 13th, 3.30pm, I'm waiting at the airport in Hamburg with my homie Claas, for my brother from another, that I've been knowing for over 2 years and who became a really close friend! We didn't even had to wait that long cause the flight arrived early. It was a great feeling when he came out of that terminal. Finally we were united!
He came with 2 huuuuuge bags, one was weighting 60
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Unreleased Nuts - The Beatnuts
2008-04-14 08:00:00
Oddly enough, the Beatnuts have dropped a few projects that flew under the radars of hip hop consumers. Two of these are of the instrumental variety, which shouldn't be a problem for those of you who love the 'Nuts....(I'll pretend that we are all mature and leave out the "No Homo").
The first I got from "Strictly Beats", so major props to them. It's their "Psycho Beats" instrumental LP that
Read more: Unreleased
Waaay Back In 1983...
2008-04-16 08:00:00
Been busy trying to catch up on somethings this week, mainly a couple interviews that I've been sitting on for awhile and a couple other projects. Still have a full slate of things for the rest of the week....until now, enjoy the sounds of 1983 once again.
This little mix comes from DJ Scientist and his label Equinox Records.
Free Download: Rap History 1983 Mix
Philaflava's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks :The Bonus Tracks aka Trav's Picks Part II
2008-04-17 08:03:00
"I woke up early on my born day....." - Nas.
I'm another year older this morning as I am now old enough to run for president. I have nothing left to look forward as far as milestones, except senior citizen discounts. Yeah, great. I don't really feel like getting into a big long post about turning older like I did last year, but if someone has a copy of the mix I threw up last year on my birthday
Read more: Greatest
, Bonus
Twenty Years of Yo! MTV Raps!!!
2008-04-18 21:34:00
It's been TWENTY years since the first episode of Yo! MTV Raps. I personally think Yo! is responsible for hip hop being the global force that it is. The show is legendary, a one of a kind, event that will forever be seen as one of the best things to ever happen to hip hop culture. It was the most important media vehicle that the music has ever witnessed. The effect it had on just me is
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FIrst Quarter of '08
2008-04-18 08:04:00
It's been three months since the start of the year? You've got to be kidding me. Damn, time flies when you are....well, it just flies. The three month mark also signifies the end of the first quarter of the year. For those of you not in the "business sector", the year is broken up into four three-month sections, each being a quarter of the year.
The first quarter is traditionally a little on the
New Artist Spotlight: Remot
2008-04-22 08:04:00
- www.myspace/remotmusic
- Link for Hello Brooklyn (Remot Remix)
- Link for Be Prepared-Akrobatik feat. Little Brother (Remox Remix)
- Link for American Gangster Remoted -
Any of you who know me beyond "Trav at WYDU" know I had a problem. An addiction of sorts. I
Read more: Artist
, Spotlight
Philaflava's 100 Greatest Obscure Tracks :The Bonus Tracks aka Trav's Picks Part III
2008-04-23 08:01:00
It's time for more "hard-to-find" goodies from my arsenal of tracks that I've managed to find in my visits to records stores, back of magazines, and of course the world wide internet. I honestly didn't intend to do more than 10-20 tracks for the "Bonus
" tracks of my "Obscure" Philaflava post, but people seem to dig it plus I haven't had the time to move onto the next project I have in mind, at
Read more: Greatest
New Tracks From LA The Darkman and Kooley High Video
2008-04-24 07:57:00
NEW joints from Wu-Tang Affiliate La Da Darkman. He has a SRC/Universal deal in place and has a project coming in Summer/Fall 2008. In the meantime, he will be doing a lot of promoting for his album, by dropping mixtapes and songs (from the album and unreleased joints). Expect producers such as RZA, Havoc, Scott Storch and Don Cannon to appear on this upcoming album. HIs first album, Heist of the
Plays, Spins, & Thoughts
2008-04-25 07:58:00
Ahhh, the weekly charts is blessing us with it's presence once again. It was something that was supposed to be a weekly thing, but like a lot of other things on this blog, I kind of do it when I have the time and/or the energy. Regardless, there a lot of songs I'm enjoying, while not all that many actual albums. Here are a few blessing the iPod..
Top 10 Tracks
10. The Program - Gotta Get The
Read more: Plays
, Spins
DJ Mark The 45 King Appreciation Week
2008-04-28 08:00:00
When people think of all-time great producers, lots of names get tossed around. You have Pete Rock, Dr. Dre, DJ Premier and a host of others that get mentioned before one of Jersey's finest, DJ Mark The 45 King or simply The 45 King. I'm not the best person to speak on the history of The 45 King, who got the name from the ill 45's he used to use for some of his classic break beats. My man Jaz at
Hydra Beats Re-Ups...Part One
2008-04-27 16:01:00
For about ten years, Jerry Famolari’s Hydra
Records label was responsible for putting out a whole bunch of dope hardcore east coast records until its unfortunate closure last year. Besides releasing three excellent Screwball albums, Hydra is probably best remembered for its long-running series of instrumental albums, aptly entitled Hydrabeats.
I don’t know about y’all, but beat albums usually
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The 45 King Appreciation Week Day 2
2008-04-29 07:51:00
The man the 45 King is world renown, yet highly underrated. Both a legend and a forgotten hero. Truth is, the man should be more highly recognized than he is. It is somewhat unfortunate that while he did garner some fame for the "Stan" and "Hard Knock Life" beats, not many people outside us old fogey hip hop heads truly understand the stamp he has left on the hip hop history. He is responsible
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